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Editorial
. 2018 Mar 23;20(1):58.
doi: 10.1186/s13075-018-1542-y.

Rheumatology in East Asia

Kazuhiko Yamamoto  1 , Yeong-Wook Song  2 , Zhan-Guo Li  3
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Editorial

Rheumatology in East Asia

Kazuhiko Yamamoto et al. Arthritis Res Ther. .

Abstract

Europe and North America have been leaders in rheumatology for many years. However, for more than a decade now the East Asian region has been catching up dramatically. Some aspects of rheumatology in East Asia are now almost comparable to those in the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) and the American College of Rheumatology (ACR). In this article, we describe recent progress in rheumatology in East Asia, focusing specifically on Japan, Korea, and China.

Keywords: APLAR; CRA; China; EAGOR; JCR; Japan; KCR; Korea; rheumatology.

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